Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through years of instruction, he has proved himself in the words of President Lowell, "a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious." His guidance ought to fulfill the promise that English A is to grow into a maturer course...
...Jollycos could always be brought back again, as indeed they were, very cleverly, last fortnight. In the new series of Ivory Soap advertising displays, the vignets discovered Sally Jollyco Verity and her happy bridegroom, Phil, in Paris. Jollycophiles read the fine, unobtrusive print with delight...
Such an admission must delight many authors outraged by a cacophonous conjunction of insult bearing words. Perhaps it will take the sting from an evil-flavored review to know that the critic did not believe his published opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
...icemen and janitors, iris and blue jays, "David Grayson" is almost always proof against his own sentimentalities. These essays on innocent recklessness in the making of friends reflect an enthusiasm that is as far from wallowing as from warping. They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight...
...like the peasants of Zitlieff, Mr. Mencken aims for truth through the application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...